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• - Stick a buttered piece of bread on the back of a cat, then throw the cat out a window. The result may surprise you.
  
• - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Particle Data Group welcomes you to see its Quark Dance website which is a gateway to many exciting physics websites.
  
• - A collection, including "you might be a physicist if".
  
• - A parody of modern string theories written in the form of a research paper.
  
• - Physicists at Cornel-Putnam University (CPU) confirmed yesterday the Holy Grail of Physics, the Grand Unified Theory, is contained in the Half-Life 2 source code.
  
• - Squirrels are known to hate mankind. First they got the midgets, now they eat the physicists.
  
• - A fun site which outlines how you can tell if a new theory is really from a crackpot.
  
• - Songs, and links to sites with more of them.
  
• - Wide variety of physics jokes and humorous essays.
  
• - A scientific paper parody which includes "The Theory Formerly Known as Strings","The Stages of a Theory" and a dictionary of common phrases.
  
• - A sequel to the original paper on g-string theory.
  
• - New physics lyrics to classic tunes.
  
• - A physicists attempt to prove his hypothesis that: a leading North American journal of cultural studies . . . would publish an article liberally salted with nonsense if (a)it sounded good and (b) it flattered the editors' ideological preconceptions
  
• - For every sofa there is an equal and opposite footstool. Living room furniture vs. forces of physics.
  
• - A poem by Stanislaw Lem
  
• - Physics limericks from the contests sponsored by the American Physical Society!
  
• - A story of interviews between these men and God, intended to determine if they should enter Heaven.
  
• - The possibly true story of the many possible ways of determining the height of a building using only a barometer.
  
• - Revised physics course descriptions.
  
• - A rift in the space-time continuum was created when overclocker Jamie Aperman ran a 750 MHz Coppermine Pentium III at 1.6 GHz. It appears that the CPU was operating so fast that it began to execute instructions before they arrived.
  
• - A Princeton physicist recently split an atom of hydrogen and found a toy prize inside, the journal Science reported in its June issue. [Contains fictitious information.]
  
• - This document reproduces two classics of science parody/humor. The first applies the physics of thermodynamics to conclude that Heaven is hotter than Hell. The second is a response which combines Biblical evidence with thermodynamics to argue that, while